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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorea_(disease) St Vitus dance is a symptom of rheumatic chorea and describes the involuntary muscle movements seen in the disease. A common legacy of the disease was valvular heart disesase that before the advent of open heart surgery eventually caused heart...

Hi Arkrite I am now very happily retired from mainstream health service work after 34 years of graft though I still do some consultancy work mainly to keep me "current". I now spend most of my time at our caravan in Minster Kent, a beautful hilltop farm overlooking the Thames estuary.The...

Building demolition and sale of the land will almost certainly be necesary to fund the present QE Building plans. I agree old workhouse buildings do hold a fascination, the Walsall Manor workhouse buildings still remain. Wouldnt it be marvellous if we could get the workhouse resited at the Black...

Hi annieker You make a very important point about the staff making a hospital special. I remember the ambience of the General and Chidrens Hospital so well. I havent read about the 74 bedded wards, such a ward would be impossible to manage as a single unit. It may well be a speciality has that...

I remember and indeed was involved in the transfer of acute services from The General Hospital to SellyOak and the Queen Elizabeth Hospitals in the mid 90s. Such was the anticipated public outrage of the beloved General being closed the then health authority decided the Children Hospital would...

I am certain 66 still remains but the odds may have been demolished for new housing. I am going that way in the next few days so I will check for you and take photos if they are still standing. You mentioned number 66 was occupied in the late 1800s but my understanding was that they were all...

What a small world we live in Ann. I lived at number 90 from 1951-1961. Right next door to the welfare.You lived 2 doors down from old Mr Bloxham who my dad lodged with on his demob. He also owned number 90 where we lived. He must have been very rich. I remember most of the houses from Fentham...

Hi GG Jean Dr Rosenfield was my doctor, he lived in Trinity Road. I have written something about him in the doctors thread. I had some good mates In Holte Road and the posh area you mention... my cub mistress used to live there. I remember going to her house to earn my teamaking badge-it was...

Nods again....indeed i have Patty. I filled them with chilli con carne and it was fab. Will make them again Saturday with roast beef, our last meal before we fly to Gambia for 2 weeks. Sunshine here we come.

Nods... Glenmorange but for medicinal purposes only. Fortunately my next liver function test is 6 months away bless. Just pulled the puddings out of the oven, they have risen superbly. The recipe really works even with my very limited culinary skills.

No, this is the one methinks... the first link I posted was a James Martin recipe. https://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/514323

https://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/600283 Think this is what Patty was directing us to... oh hum, off to the kitchen I go.

The link given sends me to the facebook log in page

Many years ago (about 50) my father regulary took me to the Bullring. I always remember the walls surrounding the Bullring having a coliseum like appearance.Just inside the entrance was a defused WW2 bomb. I have looked at many photograps of the "ring" but cannot see any that agree with my...

I too have very fond memories of Dudley zoo. My dad used to take my brother and me there very often in the late 50s very early 60s. I rememember the amusements and the hall of mirrors, the chairlift and the castle grounds where a flock of peacocks used to roam.And wasnt the view fabulous from...

thanks wales. I will look on the site you mention. My mother and father only moved into trinity road after their marriage in 1950. Look forward to the photos if you can find them.

That would be so kind of you. I have tried researching Trinity road without success. Thank you. And yes, i will keep the photos coming.

Now that I hve discovered how to post photos on this site thought any of you Ratpan historians may be interested in seeing the attached. Both are from the mid 50s when my dad worked as a part time barman there. The first is self explanatory, the second he told me was from a new years eve...

This was taken in 1956 whilst in our Sunday best. Struth, the poverty we must have lived in. No coats in our house....I am in the front row far left with one of my dads experimental haircuts.

Hi Big Gee We lived in a top floor flat at number 90 opposite the old Aston Villa training ground. The flat must have once been the servants quarters. There was a single window facing trinity road and the use of a chair was needed to peep out of it.We used to watch the Villa training from that...